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Hello RDMers, We all love the Devolutions Online Database data source, which is our managed hosted repository that allows you to access your data through a simple web connection. However, there have b...

Hi RDMers, As you may know, Devolutions has customers on 6 continents (we’re still waiting for our first customer in Antarctica, but penguins don’t seem to want to tame the IT chaos in their icy world...

LastPass vs KeePass vs 1Password vs Dashlane vs Passwordstate There are a lot of options out there for password manager software, but finding the one that will fulfill your needs can sometimes feel ov...

Hello RDMers, You know how I might think that the Mona Lisa is the greatest painting ever created but someone else might totally disagree and say that for the Starry Night is the greatest painting the...

Hello RDMers, Devolutions is truly community driven, we strive to implement as many of your requests as we can, and this makes most of you quite happy. Over the past month or two, we've received mor...

Hello RDMers, We all know how sometimes in life we wish some tasks would be automated so we wouldn’t have the impression of living the same day over and over again. I mean how great would it be for yo...

by Eugene Kalayev, VP Product Management, ControlUp Back in 2012, I wrote a whitepaper comparing different remote desktop connection software products that were available at the time. Among the variou...

Hello RDMers, Ever been in a situation where you had a bug with RDM and tried to explain it by email to one of our Support expert and just couldn’t exactly find the proper way to describe the problem,...

Hello RDMers, It’s been a long time coming for this recent feature. We have had requests pouring in for months asking us for an option that will allow you to change an entry type with a click of a but...

Hello RDMers, Have you ever lost your cellphone? That complete state of panic when you realize that you have lost all your numbers, all your pictures, all those souvenirs that were stored in your cell...

Hello RDMers, Were often asked what is the fastest way to redistribute data sources or registration information among your organization or different IT environments, so we thought we would give you a ...

Hello RDMers, How about we have a little talk about cleaning up? Oh I know how much we all hate those two words, we try to run and hide hoping someone else will do those chores, but sometime it's easi...

Hello RDMers, So its that time of the year where you had to renew your lease for your apartment, you had to renew your parking permit for your car, you had to renew your mortgage for your house, and y...

Hello RDMers, Last week, we took a quick look at advanced session management with Dynamic variables to help and simplify your life a little. Since it’s summer and we are all in a great relaxation mood...

Hello RDMers, If you’ve been working in a team environment, well we all know how much handling the credentials for everyone can cause you a headache! Here is a little something that may simplify your ...

Hello RDMers, In our modern world, everything needs to go fast: cars, cellphones and of course computers. What a waste of time when you have to wait a couple of minutes just for 2 toasts for breakfast...

Hello RDMers, In the recent overhaul of our Cloud services, we introduced Devolutions Online Drive, much like Dropbox or Amazon S3, this is an online file storage service, but dedicated to a single f...

The title says it all... The best practices in our industry dictate that when an employee leaves, you must change ALL of the password that he had been made aware of as part of his work. This is true...

Hello RDMers, We often say this, but maybe you haven't seen it yet, so I'll say it once more... Our products are really, and I mean really, driven by user requests. This is not to say that we implem...

Hello RDMers, We receive requests in relation to supporting VMware clients and libraries quite often. Honestly I do not know about you but the products changing names, technologies being deprecated t...

Hello RDMers, You may have noticed that we’ve recently added many built-in tools in Remote Desktop Manager. Tools like Event Viewer, Computer Management, etc. You can even add to them by using ourMa...

Hello RDMers, We've recently reworked our browser extensions and have improved them significantly. These extensions now have the same feature set: ,Internet Explorer Browser Extension ,Mozilla Fire...

Hi RDMers, Our version 10 makes use of a new feature of the RDP protocol that allows for much faster re-connections of active sessions. This means that resizing an embedded sessions will cause a "Co...

Hi all, Here at Devolutions, we frequently get questions on the folder system of Remote Desktop Manager. Well, if you also had an interrogation on that subject, you may well find the answer below! If ...

Hey guys, Today we'd like to highlight the importance of including your REAL email address when sending out an error report. Why? Many times we already have the solution or at least a workaround for y...

Do you ever need to run a PowerShell script on multiple machines? Say an upgrade script? RDM Agent is the tool for the job. First open an RDP connection to all the machines you want to execute the scr...

Beta build v9.4.5.0 has brought some minor changes on how you configure Jump, this article has been modified accordingly. For those of you who registered for the RDM Jump Beta, you should receive your...

Hello RDMers! As you know, our development team is working hard to release new features or to fix bugs in Remote Desktop Manager. This results in new versions being released frequently. Some of you ...

Hi Everyone, Did you heard about Remote Desktop Manager’s Private Vault ? The Private Vault is a user centric repository for entries of any type. It allows you to create entries that only you can ac...

Hi everyone, Did you know that in Remote Desktop Manager, there is a feature that allows you to restore deleted entries? When an entry is deleted, Remote Desktop Manager in fact performs what is cal...

Learn how to use View Only mode in RDP sessions with Remote Desktop Manager. Follow our guide to configure this feature, allowing you to monitor remote machines securely.

Hi everyone! Another nice feature we've added is the possibility of keeping a tab open during a disconnect. This allows you to restart a remote device or simply keep your work area set up to resume ...

Learn how to manage RDP session time limits effectively in Remote Desktop Manager. Follow our tips to configure session policies and optimize resource usage for secure and efficient remote access.

As we all know, Database Administrators (DBAs) are hard working professionals who are in charge of executing important queries – often weekly, monthly and/or quarterly. However, many of them don’t ge...

Hi everyone! IT technicians, as well as web developers, often need to edit the Windows hosts file. This requires starting your favorite editor using elevated privileges (obviously only if UAC is acti...

Did you know that RDM has a Windows PowerShell snap-in? It was part of RDM 7.0, which was released early last year. The RDM snap-in allows for quick and robust automation of actions, such as add/edi...

There are a many scenarios where it makes sense for an entry to appear more than once in the UI. For example, you might want to assign different access to the folder ,create a favourite folder with...

Need As you probably know, establishing a VPN connection using Remote Desktop Manager is easy. Unfortunately, adding routes has to be done manually. Wait for the adapter to connect, find the IP and ad...